Why?

University Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man for stealing a wheelchair and stalking a female University student in October,
police said.

Everette Brian Adams of Ramona Road in Athens is being charged with talking and a felony count of theft by taking.
A male visitor told University Police someone stole his wheelchair from Sanford Stadium during a football game versus Mississippi State on Oct.
21.

The man told police he left the wheelchair valued at $500 at Gate 8 with SC personnel, the report said.
The man had difficulty walking but was not paralyzed, Capt. Lisa Boone said.

Adams approached a CSC personnel and told the worker the wheelchair belonged to him, Boone said. When the visitor returned to reclaim his
wheelchair it was gone.

The wheelchair has not been recovered, Boone said.

A female University student told University Police that Adams repeatedly made contact with her between Oct. 17 and Oct. 20 at various locations
around campus. He also called the female from various telephone numbers, Boone said.

The female told police she felt threatened by Adams, the police report said.

- Juanita

jcousins@randb.com

Bad boys. Bad boys. What’cha gonna do?

It must really suck to be Chi Phi President Matt Hughes right now. His fraternity brothers have been roasting him over the fire of police, administrators and your’s truly. I really hate to annoy the frat guys by putting them on blast – again. But let’s look at the facts:

Sept. 6 — Seven pledges and a visitor displayed a pornographic magazine featuring black women to passers-by at Tate Plaza, Brumby Hall and in a shopping plaza on Alps Road. The guys photographed the passer-by reactions.

Sept. 14-18 — Our friend Kim Ellis in judicial programs finds the pledges violated the sexual harassment portion of the University’s Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policy. The fraternity is placed on a two-year probation and given several other sanctions. A new member educator who OKed the prank and the pledges each are given individual probation and sanctions.

Sept. 21 — The Interfraternity Council, which regulates 22 social fraternities, also places five sanctions on Chi Phi.

Oct. 11 — ACC Police arrest Drewry Allen Littlewood, one of pledges who showed porn to passers-by, and charged him with underage possession of alcohol. Littlewood was chasing and shouting at the officer, the police report said, because the officer was arresting his friend.

Oct. 16 — The fraternity hosts an anti-discrimination seminar as ordered by Ellis. They open the doors of the event to the entire University. Yet, the only non-Chi Phi attendees are the speakers from the Office of Legal Affairs, Mama Shamp, and your’s truly.

Nov. 14 — University Police arrest Harris Thomas Culley and Ryan Andrew Thomas when the officer saw the two running from the Baptist Student Union after s window of the window was broken, police said.
Culley, a member of the Tate-porn crew is charged with a felony count of criminal damage to property, underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.
Thomas, another Chi Phi new member, is charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.
Hughes kicks Culley out of the fraternity and suspends Thomas.

So what’s your take?

Is The Red & Black picking on the precious frat boys? Or are these delinquents having too much fun at the expense of their fraternity and University’s names? How well has the University handled Chi Phi’s repeated offenses? How long will is be before another Chi Phi member is arrested?

Please post your thoughts.

Look for a hilarious column on the Chi Phi drama from Paul Rehm in Monday’s paper.

- Juanita
jcousins@randb.com

Bonnie and Clyde?

University Police issued warrants Wednesday for the arrests of two people sought for a rash of car break-ins.

William Andrew Towe is being charged with 17 felonies and four misdemeanors, including entering auto, financial transaction card theft, theft by deception and theft by receiving.

Julia Maria Towe is being charged with two felonies and one misdemeanor, including theft by receiving and theft by deception.

The Towes are accused of taking nearly $7,000 in merchandise between Oct. 16 and Nov. 13, including:
— $5,275 in golf equipment
— five University parking permits valued at $35 each
— purse and its contents valued at $614
— $300 CD player
— $280 subwoofer
— $250 amplifier
— $80 satellite radio receiver

Cars parked at East Campus parking deck, North Campus parking deck, the Russell Hall parking lot and the Intramural Fields were entered.

ACC Police said they found some of the items in a car belonging to the Towes after executing a search warrant when it was impounded.

Both accused are not University students, and it is unknown if they are related.

The moral of this story: Lock your cars and hide your valuables in the trunk.

— Juanita
jcousins@randb.com

A test of friendship

Two University students were arrested early Wednesday after they pulled a Halloween prank by staging an armed robbery at Old Athens Cemetery, police said.

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said Richard Gerard Donnellan and Rajesh Chandarkant Joshi used an airsoft gun, a spring powered gun that shoots plastic pellets, to rob people they know of their wallets and cash at the cemetery on Jackson Street.

“Someone thought it would be funny, but they did not think of how serious this would be,” he said.

An acquaintance present called 911 and told the operator that his friends were being robbed at gun point by two men wearing hoods at about 12:24 a.m., said Williamson who has heard a tape of the call.

He said the man believed the prank and sounded scared.

University Police arrived on the scene and discovered that Donnellan and Joshi had staged the incident and were using a fake gun.

Williamson said the students had spray painted black the florescent orange tip of the gun that is used to distinguish that it is not real.

Police arrested Donnellan and Joshi were charged with possession of a weapon on school property. Donnellan was also charged with possession of a fake ID and reckless conduct. Joshi was also charged with disorderly conduct.

The students returned the wallets they took and will not be charged with armed robbery, Williamson said.

“While many may think things are funny, in today’s climate the same thing scares people,” he said.

Williamson said the case is still under investigation, but nine witnesses have given police statements of their accounts.

Airsoft guns can shoot 100 to 550 feet per second and can punchure the skin.

Georgia law has “zero tolerance” for possession of a weapon on or within 1,000 feet of any school-owned property.

This law includes contraptions “designed to propel a missile of any kind.”

The moral of this story was told in my last entry. I’m just trying to figure out if Donnellan and Joshi are truly “friends” with the students they scared in the cemetery that night. Let’s talk about loyalty and trust.

— Juanita
jcousins@randb.com